Laughing Baby App

Having a bad day?  Then you need a pick-me-up like Laughing Baby App.  This app would just be short video clips of laughing babies.  You would just hit a button that would play a clip.  When the clip was over the app would ask if you were feeling better.  If you answered no it would play another clip. If that doesn't make you laugh you might be a robot.

A Joke

Today's good idea is this joke I came up with:

What's a pencil's favorite state?

Pencil-vania

And if the pencils got together and had a university who would be their biggest rivals?

Pen-State

I read a book, that I have mentioned before, called "How to Think Like Da Vinci" that suggests a number of ways to maintain or regain creativity.  One of them is to make up jokes.

Question:
Do you have a joke you've made up?

Things that should be waterproof

Here are a few items (and reasons why) I think should be waterproof:

Smart phone - make calls without worry in the rain, take it fishing or to the beach and not worry if you get wet, the baby needs something to play with and you forgot all the toys in the bag that went to church with you.

iPad - read you e-book in the bath

Keyboards - if you spill your drink it's no big deal
*they make a number of waterproof keyboards (some can go in the dishwasher) but I think with the amount of coffee consumed in America at the computer all keyboards should be water proof.

Massage Therapy App

There should be an app for massage therapy.  It would drain your battery quick but what if you could set the vibrate on for long periods of time.  Then you could take your phone, after a stressful day, and rub down your shoulders with it.

Advertising on E-Book Programs

I've have a Droid for close to a year now and I love it.  Knowing I would be in the car during spring break as our family road tripped I decided to download a bunch of different games to play.  It was great, mostly for my wife because I did most of the driving but none the less it was easy to pass the time playing mind puzzle games.  Most of the games I downloaded were free but come with the stings of having advertising on them in some form or another.  So the e-book idea works very similar.  Instead of paying $9.00 for a book you can only read on your kindal/iPad/whatever you get the book for free or for a reduced price of $1.00 and then it comes with advertising.  For a company looking to hit a niche it would be a gold mine.  Want to target teenage girls who love to spend money on posters of hot movie stars?  Spend your money with the next Twilight book.   This is very closely related to the advertising insert in a hard bound new release blog I did a few months ago.

Ocean Front and Back Property

Property on the beach always amazes me.  You have one house with a sandy back yard the butts right up to the beach and it's twice as much as the house right across the street.  Or even better hotel rooms on one side of the hotel cost twice as much to stay in as the ones that look out over the parking lot.  Why not change that?  If a hotel can charge more for a room with a view then does it matter if the view is real?  Perhaps you could use mirrors or fiber optics or video technology to project the beach from one side of the building to the "non-view" rooms on the other side of the building.  You could set it up so the projection was in the actual window.  You would have to pull the shades over it and everything.

Under Ground Roads Everywhere

Imagine a sub division where all the streets were underground.  Your parking was below your house and on the surface yards were bigger, kids road safely wherever they wanted and instead of wide slabs of asphalt, trees and grass took up the space in front of your lot.  I know it would be expensive to start with and perhaps a sub division is a bad idea but think for a second about a place like Manhattan.  That place is worth a ton of money and every stinking inch of it is developed.  What if you could convert all the street space into extra buildings by burring all the traffic?  The space the roads take up could probably be sold to developers in order to pay for the tunnels.